[DianeM]

Originally Posted by NJblue

This is not just "same old, same old". The Villages is a master planned community. When all that property was purchased years ago, they had the ability to develop a master plan for the entire concept. This included traffic engineering, water/sewer planning, golf course and other amenity planning. As long as the project was constrained by the original size and scope, the only thing necessary, if the original planning was done well (and it seems to have been), is minor tweeks to the plan. This is the advantage that master planned communities have over normal communities and their suburban sprawl.

Now, however, they have been deviating from the original plan. First by additions to rooftops (as houses are referred to by the CDD) in lands previously designated as commercial as well as relatively minor new land acquisitions and now by a major land acquisition. Since these additions were not part of the original plan, it's anyone's guess as to how well they will be integrated into the existing plan, but clearly those who laid out the original plan many years ago, did not include all these new houses in their overall plan. Will it look well planned 10 years from now? Or, will it resemble suburban sprawl?

Will it really matter 10 years from now? As long as the amenities that made you / us buy here still exist who cares how big it is. There are millions of "boomers " who may want to live here and it seems wise to plan for them.